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Publications (11)

cs.LG2026

PISmith: Reinforcement Learning-based Red Teaming for Prompt Injection Defenses

Chenlong Yin, Runpeng Geng, Yanting Wang +1

Prompt injection poses serious security risks to real-world LLM applications, particularly autonomous agents. Although many defenses have been proposed, their robustness against ad…

cs.CR2026

AgentWatcher: A Rule-based Prompt Injection Monitor

Yanting Wang, Wei Zou, Runpeng Geng +1

Large language models (LLMs) and their applications, such as agents, are highly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. State-of-the-art prompt injection detection methods have the…

cs.CR2025

UniC-RAG: Universal Knowledge Corruption Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Runpeng Geng, Yanting Wang, Ying Chen +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are widely deployed in real-world applications in diverse domains such as finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, many studies…

cs.CL2026

AttnTrace: Contextual Attribution of Prompt Injection and Knowledge Corruption

Yanting Wang, Runpeng Geng, Ying Chen +1

Long-context large language models (LLMs), such as Gemini-2.5-Pro and Claude-Sonnet-4, are increasingly used to empower advanced AI systems, including retrieval-augmented generatio…

cs.CR2024

PoisonedRAG: Knowledge Corruption Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Large Language Models

Wei Zou, Runpeng Geng, Binghui Wang +1

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success due to their exceptional generative capabilities. Despite their success, they also have inherent limitations such as a…

cs.CR2026

Agent Against Agent: An Agentic System for Automatic Prompt Injection Red Teaming

Yanting Wang, Chenlong Yin, Runpeng Geng +1

Prompt injection poses significant security risks to LLM agents. Efficient and effective red-teaming is therefore critical, both for evaluating these risks and for collecting train…

cs.CR2025

PISanitizer: Preventing Prompt Injection to Long-Context LLMs via Prompt Sanitization

Runpeng Geng, Yanting Wang, Chenlong Yin +3

Long context LLMs are vulnerable to prompt injection, where an attacker can inject an instruction in a long context to induce an LLM to generate an attacker-desired output. Existin…

cs.CR2025

Formalizing and Benchmarking Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses

Yupei Liu, Yuqi Jia, Runpeng Geng +2

A prompt injection attack aims to inject malicious instruction/data into the input of an LLM-Integrated Application such that it produces results as an attacker desires. Existing w…

cs.CR2025

TASO: Jailbreak LLMs via Alternative Template and Suffix Optimization

Yanting Wang, Runpeng Geng, Jinghui Chen +2

Many recent studies showed that LLMs are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, where an attacker can perturb the input of an LLM to induce it to generate an output for a harmful questio…

cs.CR2026

PIArena: A Platform for Prompt Injection Evaluation

Runpeng Geng, Chenlong Yin, Yanting Wang +2

Prompt injection attacks pose serious security risks across a wide range of real-world applications. While receiving increasing attention, the community faces a critical gap: the l…

cs.CR2025

TracLLM: A Generic Framework for Attributing Long Context LLMs

Yanting Wang, Wei Zou, Runpeng Geng +1

Long context large language models (LLMs) are deployed in many real-world applications such as RAG, agent, and broad LLM-integrated applications. Given an instruction and a long co…